- Portrait of Farquhar Aged 10
- Catalogue raisonné no. 425
- Artist's CR 394
- Christmas, 1980
- Kinkell
- Bronze
- Edition of 10
- 11.5 x 7 x9.5 inches / 29 x 18 x24 cm
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Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1982chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 1983chevron_right
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Barbican Art Fair, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1984chevron_right
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Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1984chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Portraits, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd, London, 1993chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: A Retrospective 1963–1993, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1993chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1968–1999, The Fine Art Society, London, 1999chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Sculpture at Chisenbury Priory, Chisenbury Priory, East Chisenbury, 2002chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, 1983chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: A Retrospective 1963–1993, exhibition catalogue, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 1993chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1968–1999, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, 1999chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Sculpture at Chisenbury Priory, exhibition catalogue, Chisenbury Priory, 2002chevron_right
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Gerald Laing, 'Gerald Laing: An Autobiography', unpublished manuscript, 2011chevron_right
Selected Citations and Comments
Laing’s first naturalistic portrait head.
I had seen a photograph of a portrait head of a young boy by Michelangelo. The way he had formalized the neck and tilted one shoulder appealed to me, as did the fact that the subject was not too dissimilar to my eldest son Farquhar. I asked Farquhar to pose for me and modelled his portrait, borrowing from the Michelangelo composition. The clay flew off the modelling tool, and I achieved the sculpture very quickly.
, 'Gerald Laing: An Autobiography', unpublished manuscript, 2011, ch.45